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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown..." Shakespeare said that. Now don't say we never taught you anything.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Symbol's crowns I'll ashman start with
- 00:11
julian of norwich Obviously jesus His crown of thorns is
- 00:14
our first great So even just the image of the
- 00:16
crown of thorns keys us into the tension with the
- 00:20
crown imagery which is that not everyone who actually is
Full Transcript
- 00:23
divine has a physical crown right often with people who
- 00:25
are divine have the most punishment So julian of norwich
- 00:29
is someone who is simon seeing is he seeing jesus
- 00:31
has crowned and seeing the kind of lack of a
- 00:34
physical kingly crown is really important And this is related
- 00:37
Orinoco right Because orinoco is divest of his crown He
- 00:41
doesn't have the physical raymond's of a king but there's
- 00:45
so much about him That is kingly nonetheless Right He's
- 00:47
described as this like listening Beautiful person He has a
- 00:50
royal bearing Everything he does is his crown wave have
- 00:54
women who associate with royalty and that gives them more
- 00:58
status Like veronica frank again Veronica franco never goes away
- 01:02
She doesn't Also elizabeth importantly mentions that all of the
- 01:06
soldiers have crown right This is another moment where the
- 01:09
king leanness That rule is spread amongst the common people
- 01:14
So this is a moment also when the crown itself
- 01:17
is being contested should one person have a crown is
- 01:20
that a symbol of tyranny or is that a symbol
- 01:23
of righteousness Yeah so kind of giving everyone a crown
- 01:26
is in between The interesting thing about giving everyone a
- 01:30
crown is that it enforces a code of conduct That's
- 01:34
The fascinating thing about it Their actions were never just
- 01:37
the real anymore Does one need a physical crowd in
- 01:42
order to be royal Is the crown a symbol of
- 01:44
tyranny or of righteousness I have three gold crowns from 00:01:51.5 --> [endTime] late dentist
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